reckon with
verb1
To settle accounts or claims with.
- After a long time, the lord of those seruants commeth, and reckoneth with them.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 25:19:
2
To deal with.
- We'll reckon with him after the deed is done.
- As the country reckons with how to prevent more children from being killed at school, the legacies of the Parkland victims live on.2023 February 14, Holly Yan, “5 years after the Parkland school massacre claimed 17 lives, here’s what has changed (and what hasn’t)”, in CNN:
3
To take into account.
- I didn't reckon with his stubbornness.
- Swiss manufacturers reckon with the possibility of a contractless state with Germany. The Swiss public opinion is afraid that such a contractless state will lead to intolerable interferences of German authorities with Swiss economic life.1918, The Economist, volume 86, page 778:
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- She had not realised how butcherly the severed vessels would look, and she had not reckoned with the horrid halitus of blood, which steamed to her nostrils under the blazing sun.1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 1, in Have His Carcase (fiction):
- Derived terms
- to be reckoned with, to reckon with